The new icon, which you can see in the picture above, shows the Google “g” subtly added on top of a map that also includes the iconic Google Maps pin.

Alternatively, you can drop a custom pin by clicking the Add Marker icon below the search bar and clicking on the map where you would like to drop your pin. Adam Birney / Android Authority ...

Google Maps is turning 15 this year, and Google is celebrating with a new icon and a few UI tweaks. First, the Google Maps icon is no longer, well, a map and is now a multi-colored map pin.

Google Maps Tests Blue Pins & Gray Map Icon Oct 5, 2016 - 8:07 am 0 — by Barry Schwartz Filed Under Google Maps ...

Pins of saved places from Want to go (green), Favorites (pink), Starred (yellow), and custom (blue) lists Now, Google is testing a circular icon to replace the pin-shaped one, for places in each ...

Google has used different types of icons in their maps but it seems no one knows what the P is for. They've used H for hospitals, they've tried promotion/sponsored icons, they've used images and ...

The company has had some form of advertising in Maps since 2010, but it's now building out its Promoted Pins to be much more prominent, adding new features for advertisers such as letting them ...

As tweeted this weekend by James Mountain and featured on the financial site Minyanville, the new icon for the Maps app in iOS 6 features a slight change to emphasize the turn-by-turn directions ...

But don’t worry, it doesn’t drop giant pins onto the earth as the above photo depicts — that’s an artistic sculpture of the 15-pixel digital icon. Here’s how to drop a pin on Google Maps.